support for interference theory 2

Cards (6)

  • underwood and postman 1960
  • tested pp memory of word pairs
  • when pp learned a second list of word pairs using some of the same words, the second list retroactively interfered with the recall of the first word pair list
  • A03 criticism of interference theory
    laboratory studies may lack ecological validity
  • A03 criticism of interference theory
    items used in memory studies may not resemble they type of information we recall in everyday life
  • A03 criticism of interference theory
    interference theory can only explain forgetting that occurs when we have two or more memories that are very similar to each other